ENDORphiNATION

Marathoners on their last leg, or anyone pushing through walls of self-imposed limitation experience an euphoria, the "runner's high". We live for those ecstatic thrills induced by extreme pleasure, while being absorbed by one or by an orchestral interplay of all five senses, the spirit-mind-body troika intensified.

ENDORPHINATIONis so much more than an organic, neurotransmitter cocktail of stimulated peptide hormones.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Under the auspice of the full moon @ 1 Aquarius, deep stirrings compel the soul to put aside, depart from what once provided comfort and contentment. The concretization that comes about through sentimental attachment to tribal dynamics, the secure (yet tenuous) sense of belonging, being accepted as member of a group no longer has lasting appeal. A formless ideal is beckoning from unchartered horizons, promising more in the way of enrichment, spiritual nourishment.

Ancient incantations, invocations are being whispered across landscapes now riddled by delusional designs filling up desperate, empty spaces. The soul wants to exit edifice artifice that stores the merchandized buying and selling of commodity fetishes. Being sold a bill of goods keeps one enslaved to surreptitious commerce spiraling hopelessly in unnatural rinse and repeat cycles.

It is neither a renunciation of conviviality nor fond fellowship of stimulating exchange that is being abandoned, altogether. Rather, formulation of a new sustainable world once shared with others in lofty conceptualization has propelled an impetus to seek and find where noble enterprise is becoming a realization. Endeavors that once required one to be a placeholder, a cocooning crucible of transformation within proscribed places are now complete. It is finished. Commit thy spirit to an even higher purpose of apotheosis.

There is a bold quixotic yearning, indeed, to dare "to dream the impossible dream" awake and alive like never before. New kith and kin eagerly await your arrival. Bid fond farewell and gratitude to old acquaintances. Forget them not, for they were conveyances that transported one to this pivotal crossroads on the soul's path toward transfiguration. ~ Jost

"The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." ~ Whitman

Sunday, June 30, 2013

MERCURY Rx CANCER 2013

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This is not concerning the usual Mercury Rx REpercussions---computer crashes, automobile immune deficiencies, the pREdicatable snafus according to tradition---though, of course, these inconveniences will more than likely occur. There is a schemata, a design in motion far more disruptive than communication bREakdowns---it's about bREakthroughs.

The ensuing Grand Water Trine aligns Neptune in Pisces, Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Scorpio. Pisces REpresents the collective consciousness. Cancer is the emotional body's REpository. Scorpio is the sign associated with spiritual alchemy and REsurrection. These three planets are acting as buoys demarcating the route by which Mercury passes, tapping into the Akashic aquifer underlying the macro-micro-Galactic Ocean. Neptune, Jupiter and Saturn are placeholders in their REspective signs.

What's happening now, Mercury's curREnt REtrograde through Cancer is affecting humanity in order to assimilate more effectively, to feel on a gut level the two major seeds planted in the collective mind when Mercury was REtrograde in Pisces during the first half of February: GROUP RESPONSIBILITY* and NOURISHMENT*. Look back over the year to date and see the many news stories that REflect how these two themes have stirred and roused individuals comprising the collective: misogyny, homophobia, racism, MONSANTO, NSA, et alia.

The systemic diseases are rising to the surface to be acknowledged, to be healed. Mercury's message in watery Cancer is for us all to reach deep within and excavate a profound feeling that connects us to one another and our true NatuRE. We are being encouraged to move past the anger, hatred, divisiveness, the elitism, the segregation ensconced, mirrored back to us in government and corporation. Can we vindicate a FREEDOM FROM SOCIAL RIGIDITY* and REdiscover our HUMANITARIANISM*?

*: A reverential nod to Master, Dane Rudhyar, for these archetypal themes.

Friday, June 28, 2013

STONEWALL REDUX

Forty-four years ago today, the Stonewall Riots, considered the commencement of Gay Liberation, broke out in a blaze of undiminished glory. The Uranus-Pluto conjunction in Virgo had separated with Jupiter smack dab in the middle of the two forming an explosive ménage a trois at the onset of the Summer of Love. Another relevant alignment, possessing great meaning and beauty, Venus in the second house of self esteem is sitting across from her higher octave partner, Neptune, in the eighth house of higher love and soul alchemy. Both planets are in harmonious angles to the previously mentioned connubial troika in the seventh house of marriage. The seventh house stellium was creating a morphic resonance for future manifestation, perhaps?

Equally as significant, Mercury at the solar plexus of the Stonewall chart is opposing Luna Goddess two degrees away from the Great Attractor. The MC is within four degrees of the Galactic Center. It was as if Mercury acted like a parabolic receptor grounding the high minded, judicious principles of the noble Sagittarian spirit above, disseminating, planting those ideals into the collective mind field thus below.

How uncanny, two days earlier this week, DOMA is struck down, thereby furthering the reality of marriage equality for all amidst the ensuing Uranus-Pluto square. When studying the event chart for the moment DOMA was struck down in synastry, Stonewall's Venus/Neptune opposition is now the crowning finial of DOMA's chart at the MC/IC axis. The Stonewall seventh house stellium has reconcilled residence in DOMA's second house of self worth.

Saturday, June 22, 2013

CELESTINE EPISTEMOLOGY #1: JostFoto

Analogous to the individuation process, there comes a time when the consciousness of an individual embraces, embodies the complete ontos, all the life experience, past and present that has brought one to a junction of mindful reflection. Is it really a question of whether humanity is supposed to survive, as it is about being positioned at the nexus of transcending 3D constructs set in place that maintain disempowerment of the species? Dialectical materialism has propelled social evolution since the beginning. However, change has effected an endemic population in its quadrant of the world without necessarily sustaining global systemic change. Never before in history---at least recorded history---has humanity, as a grassroots collective, come together, one global body seeking a cure for what ails humankind. Isn't that sound reason enough for a glimmer of hope?

I SEE A PERIGEE MOON A RISIN'

As the tension and crescendo of en masse voices heard around the world are mounting, it's the tenor of revolutionary change that is pealed above the clangor. Millions and millions are filled with the rage of "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore". The anger of being taken advantage of, lied to and stolen from is being heard marching in the streets, a concerted effort to dismantle the crooked cornerstone upon which a criminal convolution was constructed.

The Full Moon @ 3 Capricorn is an in your face, "super moon", reaching its closest position to Earth on 23 June 2013. Luna is driving her point home: the Collective Will's patience, endurance and forthrightness are being put to the test as the mobilized desire to overcome disempowerment at the hands of those who gorged themselves on the benighted downtrodden is culminating at high tide. Yet, as the urge to tear down infrastructures crests, what exactly is the interpersonal manifesto driving the initiative? Is it change for change sake? Can it be believed humanity is finally coming together, with one purpose fulfilling the needs as one family? The catabolic process inherent in dialectic social synthesis releases vast amounts of stored energy propelling evolution forward---construction on the detritus of destruction. However, in its quest for new order, what fortifying principles are the mainstay for humanity's collective soul? Will the masses that rallied against the old order remain present at the instillation, the installation of said new order ensuring the truths held as self evident are embodied by and for all? Or, like the "summer of love" theme during the Pluto-Uranus conjunction, will we hum a few bars while we get on with business as usual, the idealistic lyrics lost in the undertow of greed and abuse of power once again?﻿

Monday, May 20, 2013

There are those who first see the dawn breaking through darkness. They can't contain the enthusiasm for what they behold. They earnestly endeavor to arouse and awaken those who still slumber, ignorant to the imminent light approaching. "What's this you're saying? Leave me alone! It's too early. Can't you see we're trying to sleep?" Ignorance and denial cast an umbrage over an inevitability.

Then as the light becomes prevalent at a later hour, the sleepers awaken and exclaim, "Oh, look here is the sun!" as if they're the ones seeing it for the first time.

Dane Rudhyar grouped together the three outer planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) naming them the "Ambassadors of the Galaxy". These three meta-musical spheres are awakening human consciousness out of the mundane world via transmission to the corporeal body-mind-spirit troika from the vast Cosmic Field of Potentiality.

Presently, Uranus in Aries represents the awakening biopsychic individual wresting free from rigid structure, a long-standing tradition of beliefs built upon falsehood and deceit. Neptune in Pisces is opening the floodgates of the Akashic repository. Here is the storehouse where, despite the victors' concealment of what really happened throughout history, the vibrational imprint remains encoded within muscles, bones, DNA---the vast oceanic collective consciousness of which we are droplets. Pluto in Capricorn is slowly eating away at the Edifice Rex of conventionality tenuously held together by the mortar of indoctrinated fear and ignorance masquerading as education, allegiance and happily ever after under sinister auspices.

Between 2012 - 2015 Uranus and Pluto aspect seven times to form their epochal shifting square while Neptune stands by quite literally cueing from the orchestra pit. The Seven squares will further activate the seven chakras, the key of ANKH turning the ignition of the Star Tetrahedron Merkaba opening up to the Seven Heavens guarded by the Seven ArchAngels.

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EPIPHANY: TRANSFIGURATION: WHY I AM WHO I AM

I must have been 5 years old, because I recall sharing a bedroom with my younger brother, 4 years my junior. He slept behind retractable bars in a crib. My twin-size bed was positioned parallel within whispering distance, the headboard situated under a rather large window festooned with curtains, sheer and diaphanous.

Except for a streetlight two houses down, there was no errant light around outside. Thus, if especially unsleepy, which was most every night, I would either kneel on my pillow, elbows propped on the sill---or, I could lay supine, neck hyper-extended and peer out into a magical star-speckled sky, drawing pictures by connecting the twinkling dots. The comforting chorus of nocturnal creatures, concealed amidst the phantasmagorical landscape, enchanted my eardrums--a drone, an incessant, yet soothing night-music lullaby, coaxed me to sleep, drifting out beyond the stars.

On one of those star-trek nights, cast adrift in the Orphic Realm, my bed transformed into an interplanetary craft and I experienced one of the first of many to follow OBEs. Except this was an epiphany---though, at the time, my young, imaginative mind construed the numinous event like something akin to Dorothy being whisked away to the Land of Oz.

It was an angelic visitation in technicolor splendor, broadcast in high definition widescreen. In short, I witnessed an avatar of a previous martyred incarnation. Attired in a black tuxedo, arms outstretched as if crucified, the body was suspended overhead at a 45 degree declination.

The sky was refulgent, the multiverse flood-lit with glorious unified light is how I would describe it today. Yet, to the wonderment of this child, the body continued to ascend heavenward, an out of sight transfiguration, borne aloft by celestial, respendent light pixelating into millions, billions, trillions of white doves...

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Jost

I am an eternal seeker of the numinous and mystical. Possessing a penchant for couture and culture, I like to think outside the box. The Golden Rule has always been a guiding proverb. Off the beaten path, you would find me eager to revel in magic and adventure.

NUN ASCENDING, Assisi, 1999: Jost van Dyke

APHORISM

All the life-changing golden opportunities, every narrow escape disclosing a providential detour, prayers seemingly unanswered, wishes coming true at a precise intersection of longitude and latitude, bravely marching onward to a unique beat of miraculous systolic rhythm has led you to where you're sitting at this moment in time and space, NOW.